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Christian Science" 



UNMASKED. 



By KEY. W. T. HOGG. 



"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain 
deceit."— Col. 2. 8. 



THIRD EDITION, 




SYRACUSE, N. Y. 
A. W. HALL, Publisher. 

1892. 



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"Christian Science" Unmasked. 



Masked enemies are always more dangerous 
than those whose hostile purposes are undis- 
guised. The wolf in sheep's clothing makes 
vastly greater havoc of the flock than the wolf 
without a deceptive covering. Sugar-coated 
poison is more likely to be swallowed than the 
mixture which is labeled with skull and cross- 
bones. 

Never are the enemies of Christianity more 
dangerous and more difficult to encounter than 
when they parade themselves under the mask 
of professed friendship, and stealthily attempt 
to subvert the essential truths of divine revela- 
tion, to captivate unwary souls with concealed 
and fascinating forms of error, and to under- 
mine the very foundations of faith in the living 
God. The assaults of a coarse, arrogant and 
abusive infidelity are much less to be feared 
than the insidious approaches of a more polite, 
modest and refined skepticism. The open bias- 



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phemies and the swords and stones of the hos- 
tile mob are more easily repelled than the 
"Hail, Master!" of a traitorous Judas, or the 
shrewd attempt of the spirit of divination to 
enter into partnership with the apostles of 
Christ, by crying, "These men are servants of 
the Most High God, which show unto us the 
way of salvation. ' ' The grosser forms of antag- 
onism to Christian truth repel and disgust the 
multitudes by their open and unblushing blas- 
phemy ; but the more specious and subtle forms 
of error and unbelief allure and fascinate, by 
putting on an air of candor, parading in the 
garb of philosophical research, assuming a high 
degree of moral sensibility, and professing great 
reverence for the concerns of religion. 

The weapons of atheistic and infidel assault 
upon the Christian faith have greatly changed 
in modern times. The gross ribaldry and the 
daring and revolting blasphemy which were 
employed a century ago, were soon quenched 
under the Reign of Terror in a sea of blood. 
The sapping and mining process of a covert 
skepticism has succeeded them. This modern, 
refined infidelity professes great friendship and 
reverence for Christianity, and borrows the 
very phrases of Holy Scripture to give them a 
philosophical meaning, which, if accepted,, 



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sweeps away the last prop of Christian faith, 
and subverts the whole structure of revealed 
religion. 

Not unfrequently do these covert forms of 
error captivate the best and purest minds. This 
is because many good people are lacking in that 
power of discernment which is necessary to dis- 
tinguish truth from those specious forms of 
error in which the truth is counterfeited with 
consummate ingenuity. Many have never been 
trained to discover truth by the application of 
proper tests. They are not versed in the history 
of philosophy, nor in the history of religious 
doctrine. They are not skilled in the knowl- 
edge and use of the Holy Scriptures. Hence 
they become the easy dupes of every new im- 
posture, and of every form of error which arrays 
itself in the garb of Scripture language, and 
makes high pretensions of being scientific in its 
character and methods. Unskilled in the ap- 
plication of logical rules, they do not follow 
principles to their legitimate and necessary con- 
clusions, and therefore cannot calculate their 
practical effects in common life. 

It is the aim of this lecture to tear away the 
masks that conceal the true character of Chris- 
tian Science, falsely so-called, and by which it 
has deceived and overthrown souls who once re- 



6 "christian science" 

joiced in the comfort, inspiration and support 
of an uncorrupted faith in Jesus Christ as the 
Savior of Sinners, and so to disclose its thor- 
oughly anti-Christian, unscientific and danger- 
ous character, that all who peruse these pages 
may, by taking heed, be effectually forewarned 
against its corrupting principles, its insidious 
operations, and its pernicious and ruinous ten- 
dencies. 

ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE SYSTEM. 

Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddv, now Presi- 
dent of a Christian Science Institution known 
as "The Massachusetts Metaphysical College," 
claims to have been the first discoverer of this 
system, and the first to have called it "Chris- 
tian Science." Her discovery of its principles 
was made in 1866. Since then she has publish- 
ed several works on the subject, the most elabo- 
rate of which is her book on ' ' Science and 
Health," first published in 1875, but which now 
bears on its title-page the imprint — "Forty- 
ninth Edition. ' ' Her published works stand in 
the relation of parent to the whole system, as it 
is now propagated, and are standard authorities 
on the subject. 

Numerous other authors have written on the 
subject since Mrs. Eddy first published her dis- 



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coveries, and numerous journals are regularly 
devoted to setting forth its principles. Each 
writer endeavors to sustain a claim to originali- 
ty, and, on certain points, some of them differ 
from Mrs. Eddy in their teachings. She affirms 
that these later works have been written in imi- 
tation of hers, "and are all, more or less, incor- 
rect." The system is also represented by vari- 
ous schools, each of which issues a publication 
of its own, and maintains certain views which 
the others openly repudiate. But while there 
are differing shades of belief among these dif- 
ferent schools and authors, there are certain 
fundamental principles which they all hold in 
common. I have personally examined consid- 
erable of the literature of this so-called Science, 
and, so far as my investigations have gone, I 
find that the various writers concur with Mrs„ 
Eddy in all the fundamental principles of the 
system, and differ from her only upon minor 
points ; and even these apparent differences are 
frequently of the most superficial character. 

During its comparatively brief history, this 
system has been characterized by an almost in- 
credible growth. I have no statistics to present 
indicating the extent to which it has spread it- 
self over the world ; but it is a Well known fact 
that, in almost every town and city in the coun- 



8 "christian science" 

try, it has its representatives, who are teaching 
its principles and growing rich by operating as 
practitioners of its healing art. It has its 
"Churches," " Colleges" and " Universities," 
as a means of propagating its principles. In 
1876 Mrs. Eddy organized the " Christian Scien- 
tist Association," and three years later, at a 
meeting of that association, she organized ' ' A 
Mind Healing Church, without Creed, called 
the Church of Christ." In nearly all of our - 
large cities Christian Scientist Churches have 
since been established which have regularly in- 
stalled pastors, and hold regular religious ser- 
vices. Its educational and training institutions 
are designated by such titles as ' ; The Massachu- 
setts Metaphysical College," "The Christian 
Science University," "The University of the 
Science of Spirit," "The Institute for Physical 
Culture," etc. They are located chiefly in the 

7 mi t/ 

larger cities, such as Boston. Xew York and 
Chicago. 

"There is hardly a pastor in this part of the 
country, especially in the large cities," says 
Rev. Dr. Patten of Chicago, "who has not had 
his attention called to this subject, because of 
the inroads it has made on the faith and stabili- 
ty of his members. Some of the most refined, 
some of the most sincere people have been led 



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away by the'seductive and quasi-Christian spirit 
of its teachings. There can be no question in 
the mind of any one who has given the subject 
even casual attention, that it is doing great 



damage. 



5?* 



DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER SYSTEMS. 

The system which is now designated as Chris- 
tian Science, should be carefully distinguished 
from other systems of treating diseases, which 
are often confounded with it, though radically 
differing from it. 

1. It is not a system of faith cure, or of be- 
lief in divine healing for the body as a gift of 
the Spirit bestowed upon the Church in the be- 
ginning, to be the permanent heritage of be- 
lievers in all succeeding ages. Those who be- 
lieve in divine healing for the body believe that 
it is to besought and obtained through "the 
prayer of faith," according to James, v. 16. 
But Christian Science repudiates this in toto, 
and declares that " prayer to a personal God 
affects the sick like a drug that has no efficacy 
•of its own."t 

2. Nor is it, strictly speaking, a system of 
mind-cure, although this term is often associat- 

*Facts and Fallacies of Christian Science, page 4. 
fScience and Health, page 489. 



10 "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE v 

ed with the teachings of Christian Scientists. 
The theory of mind-cure asserts that, "by the 
direct influence of a strong will over a weaker 
one. an invalid may be controlled and raised 
from his debilitated and diseased condition to 
soundness of mind and body." This is not 
Christian Science, according to Mrs. Eddy's 
view, since she asserts that "one erring mind 
governing another i through whatever medium) 
is not science governed bv God. the imerrinsr 
mind."* 

3. A^ain. Christian Science is is not a theorv 

_ «. 

of magnetic healing* or of operating by mes- 
meric force. It whollv ignores evervthin^ of 

t. _ t. O 

this character. 

4. Sot should this system be confounded 
with clairvoyant practice. "It is not Spirtu- 
alism. which, among its preposterous assump- 
tions, sometimes claims to subsidize ghostlv 

_ ». 

eyes that can search and scan the inside of a 
man. till, having diagnosed his disease, they 
discern also an effectual remedv." 

ml 

PRINCIPLES OF THE SYSTEM SUMXAEIZED. 

Passing from what Christian Science is not, 
to what it is. we shall find that, although the 
phraseology in which its standard teachers have 

^Science and Health, page 11. 



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set forth its principles is exceedingly ambigu- 
ous, arbitrary, and evasive of exahustive defini- 
tion, there are certain aspects of the system 
which may be easily traced, and in the tracing 
of which we may be led to the most perfect 
knowledge of its true character. 

In stating the theory of this so-called Science, 
I shall, for the sake of exactness, and to avoid 
doing injustice to its advocates and teachers, 
quote freely from their own published and 
standard works. Mrs. Eddy, the original dis- 
coverer and chief apostle of the system, sets 
forth the theory in the following remarkable 
paragraph : 

' ' When apparently near the confines of mor- 
tal existence, standing already within the shad- 
ow of the death valley, I learned certain truths : 
that all real being is the Divine Mind and Idea ; 
that the Science of Divine Mind demonstrates, 
that Life, Truth and Love are all-powerful and 
ever-present ; that the opposite of Science and 
Truth, named error, is the false supposition of 
a false sense. This sense is, and evolves, a be- 
lief in matter that shuts out the true sense of 
Spirit. The great facts of omnipotence and 
omnipresence, of Spirit possessing all power 
and filling all space, — these facts contradicted 
forever, to my understanding, the notion that 



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55 



matter can be actual. These facts also revealed 
to me primeval existence, and the radiant reali- 
ties of good ; and there was present to me, as 
never before, the awful unreality of evil. This 
vision announced the equipollence of G-od, con- 
secrated my affections anew, and revealed the 
glorious possibilities of the petition, Thy king- 
dom come on earth as in heaven."* 

This summary of principles is enveloped in 
so much fog that many will doubtless find it 
exceedingly difficult to know just what its au- 
thor meant to express in its verbose utterances. 
In order to clear away the mists of excessive 
and meaningless verbiage, and bring more 
prominently to view the basal propositions of 
the system, as here propounded, the passage 
under consideration needs to be carefully ana- 
lyzed. Reducing it to a final analysis, we have 
the following propositions, which, for their 
astounding impudence, out-rival all denials of 
Christian truth ever before published since the 
world began : 

1. The Divine Mind (by which Mrs. Eddy 
means, as we shall hereafter see, an impersonal, 
universal mind) is the only reality. Hence, 

2. Matter is unreal — the false supposition of 
a false sense. 



^Science and Health, page 11. 



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3. Individual mind has no existence — all 
mind is one and indivisible. 

4. There is no such ethical reality as evil — 
what seems so is only inverted thinking. 

5. There is no such being as a personal God 
— no God apart from universal mind. 

6. The Bible is no more an inspired book than 
Mrs. Eddy's " Science and Health" — in fact, is 
less reliable as a rule of faith and practice. 

That this analysis does no injustice to the 
system under consideration or to its author, will 
be made to appear more fully in the progress of 
this discussion. 

A more recent summary of the teachings of 
this system was set forth by Mrs. Emma Hop- 
kins at the exercises of the so-called ' ' Christian 
Science Theological Seminary' ' of Chicago, last 
December, and was published in the Chicago 
Inter -Ocean of Dec. 17, 1889. I will here give 
it as quoted by Dr. Patten of Chicago, together 
with his comment on the same. 

"This doctrine in substance is : 1. That God 
is all, and, therefore, that which is not God is 
nothing. 2. That God is spirit, and, theref ore, 
that as God is all, so spirit, which is God, is all,, 
and that which is not spirit is absolutely non est. 
3. That as God is all and the Creator of all, 
then all is spiritual and dwelleth in spirit, safe 



14 "CHKISTIAl^ SCIENCE" 

and free forever and forever from that which is 
not spirit. 4. That as God is good and God is 
all, so that which is not good is absent from the 
universe created by the good, occupied by the 
good, and tolerating only the good. 5. That 
as God is all, and God cannot be imperfect or 
miserable, so nothing can be imperfect or mis- 
erable, and all that is supposed to be imperfect 
or miserable is the supposition of what would 
be if God The Perfect were not The All. 6. 
That God being the All- Wise parent, demand- 
eth the proof of wisdom, goodness, absolute- 
ness, by the perfect word and perfect work of 
His children, which we are. As it is written, 
■ Prove thyself,' 'Prove me now.' 7. That as 
the whole mission of the sons and daughters of 
God is the proving of their spiritual origin and 
divine excellence as offspring of Spirit by the 
word of their speaking, therefore, by our words 
we are justified when we declare that we, being 
begotten of spirit, are spiritual, free, wise, and 
immortal, like the Parent from whom we live 
and move and have our being. 8. That since 
the Truth justifieth herself of her children, 
therefore Truth must justify herself through 
our speaking by proving all conditions true in 
our sight when we speak her words. 9. That 
truth spoken is the announcement that all is 



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spirit and we are the spoken words of truth 
when we say that all is spirit. 10. That spirit- 
ual conditions must show forth around us in- 
stead of material conditions when we declare 
for the allness of the spirit. 11. That spiritual 
condition is health and soundness in every part 
— vitality enduring, strength unfailing, peace 
unbroken. 12. That all these conditions will 
surely prove the absoluteness of truth, exactly 
as Jesus promised, by raising those who seem 
to be dead into manifest life, curing those who 
seem to be sick, and breaking the bonds of 
blindness, deafness and deformity. 

"It is easily seen that the argument contain- 
ed in the foregoing summary is : 

"1. God is all, God is good; therefore all is 
good; hence there is no evil. 2. God is all, 
God is spirit ; therefore all is spirit ; hence 
there is no matter. 3. God is all, God is per- 
fect ; therefore all is perfect ; hence there is no 
imperfection, no misery, no sickness, only that 
which seems to be so. The other propositions 
flow as corollaries from these three: we are 
spiritual, perfect, healthy, good, free, wise and 
immortal. 

"The fallacy lies in the statement 'God is 
all,' which is affirmed in a sense that so identi- 
fies God with the universe as to annihilate his 



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personality, and also to annihilate human free 
will and accountability. 

"It is the veriest farce, that this philosophy, 
which emasculates the Scriptures and strikes at 
the deepest instincts of the human soul, should 
parade under the name 'Christian' or 'Sci- 
ence/ " 

THE PRINCIPLES APPLIED. 

Christian Science claims to be "the under- 
standing of God." This also is the meaning of 
the Greek word "Theosophy." under which 
title some Christian Scientist authors have 
written. 

The fundamental Truth, or principle which 
Christian Scientists profess to have discovered. 
and the knowledge of which, according to their 
claims, delivers from sin. sickness and death, 
is stated bv Mrs. Eddv. as follows: "The onlv 
realities are the Divine Mind and its ideas." 
"This Mind, or Divine Principle, can produce 
nothing unlike itself. Sin, sickness, and death, 
are comprised in a belief in matter. Because 
Spirit is real and harmonious, everything in- 
harmonious — sin. sickness, death — is the oppo- 
site of Spirit, and must be the contradiction of 
realitv, must be unreal."* 

^Science and Health, page 14. 



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This is claimed to have been the divine law 
by which Jesns performed his wonderful works. 
The miraculous character of his works, in the 
sense in which the term miraculous is common- 
ly used, is utterly denied. He was simply a 
Christian Scientist " whose demonstrations of 
the Divine Principle richly endowed him, and 
entitled him to Sonship in Science." Upon the 
discovery of the foregoing principle in connec- 
tion with her own healing in 1866, Mrs. Eddy 
claims to have named it Christian Science. 

Assuming that "Mind is all," Christian Sci- 
ence declares that "matter is naught," and 
that "sin, sickness, and death are unreal" — 
mere illusions of "mortal mind" — a phrase by 
which Mrs. Eddy distinguishes mind which has 
not arrived at the full knowledge of Christian 
Science from divine mind, or mind which has 
mastered the principle and rule of this divine 
philosophy. 

Upon this hypothesis the certain and only 
way to banish sin, sickness and death, is by 
firmly maintaining that there is no sin, that 
there is no sickness, that there is no death. 
"God is mind," and "Mind is God," and 
"God is all," are oft-repeated statements of 
Christian Science. "Man has no separate life 
or soul from God. Man was and is the idea of 



18 '-CHEISTIAX SCIENCE" 

God. the reflection of the Divine Mind and its 
ideas. There is no sickness, sin or death in the 
Divine Mind." Hence he cannot reflect sick- 
ness, sin or death. In other words, he cannot 
be sick, he cannot sin. he cannot die. %, Sin 
and sickness are mythology." "Disease is a 
thing of thought." "What seem to be disease 
and mortality are illusions of the physical 
senses." Since "Mind is all, and matter is 
naught." what we call brain, nerves, stomach. 
lungs, etc.. are not realities, but mere illusions. 
Hence there can be no brain disease, no nervous 
prostration, no dyspepsia or gastric trouble, no 
pulmonary complaint, no sickness, and conse- 
quently no death. * ' Besiege sickness and death 
with these principles and all will disappear." 

Such in brief are the theory and modus oper- 
andi of Christian Science. 

I concur most heartily with one of its Chicago 
representatives — Ursula X. Gestefeld — who. in 
her " Statement of Christian Science." frankly 
says : "Its statements are. in the main, para- 
doxical, nonsensical, incomprehensible, to those 
who hear them for the first time : an impression 
which is not entirely removed after a further 
hearing." It is a system of puerile and wind- 
filled sophistries. Its philosophy is incoherent 
and meaningless. It boldlv denies the clearest 



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facts of human consciousness. It contradicts 
the common sense of mankind. It disputes and 
antagonizes the Holy Scriptures. It dissemi- 
nates the rankest fanaticism. It requires the 
man who was born blind to say he is not blind, 
that there is no blindness, in order that he may 
see. It tells the man whose face is eaten to the 
bone with cancer to believe and maintain that 
he has no cancer, that he is not sick, in order 
that he may recover. It instructs the man 
whose arm or leg is broken to deny having any 
Ibroken bone, as a means of cure. It would al- 
so force us to conclude, should we accept its 
teachings, that the criminal whose neck is bro- 
ken and whose breath is stopped by swinging 
from the gallows, died, or rather appeared to 
die, because of an illusion in which he thought 
his neck was broken and his breath shut off, 
when in reality nothing of the kind had taken 
place. Such is the history of Christian Science, 
that so-called system of Therapeutics, Philoso- 
phy, and Theology, which its votaries claim is 
to banish all the ills of humanity and usher in 
the dawn of a new and golden era. 

The system has certainly arrogated to itself a 
high-sounding name — a name which might lead 
the unwary to accept its teachings without con- 
sideration and investigation, on the supposition 



20 "christian science" 

that it must comprise all wisdom and all good- 
ness. Notwithstanding its exalted title a thor- 
ough investigation of the system in the light 
of reason, science and revelation, will prove it 
to be a farce and a fraud ; to be wanting in those- 
elements which would justify its assumption of 
either of the exalted names in which it has been 
christened. 

THE SYSTEM TESTED BY SCEIPTUEE. 

A careful examination of this so-called Sci- 
ence in the light of Scripture teaching, will con- 
vince any unprejudiced mind that the sy stents 
while calling itself Christian, is essentially 
and thoroughly anti-Christian in its charac- 
ter. 

It has falsely, if not blasphemously, assumed 
the name Christian. That many who, unsus- 
pectingly, have been captivated by its teach- 
ings, or induced to apply to its so-called physi- 
cians for bodily healing, are sincere Christians, 
is not questioned ; but that the system itself i& 
not only un-Christian, but positively anti-Chris- 
tian, can be shown most conclusively. 

Take, for instance, the teachings of Christian 
Science concerning God : 

Mrs. Eddy says, "God is mind. He is Di- 
vine Principle, not person."* "God is Soul, 

^Science and Health, page 377, 



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or Spirit, and Spirit hath no outline. Soul is 
neither a limited mind nor a limited body; 
therefore it can not be a person."* "We can 
not bring out the practical proof of Christianity 
that Jesus required, while error is as potent and 
real to us as Truth, and while we make a per- 
sonal devil, and a personal God, our starting 
points, "f Here the doctrine that God is a per- 
sonal Being is absolutely denied. 

Scripture says, "God is a Spirit" John 4. 
24. He is designated as a "Father" (Matt. 6. 
9), on whom we are to depend, and to whom we 
are to make known our wants, in prayer. The 
Bible everywhere speaks of God in . language 
that implies distinct personality ; and belief in 
a personal God is the very corner-stone of re- 
vealed religion. 

The theory of Christian Science is, that there 
is nothing in the universe but mind ; that there 
is and can be only one mind ; that this univer- 
sal mind is God ; that there is no God separate 
from man, and that man has no personality 
separate from God ; that God is all, and every- 
thing that is, is God. This denial of a person- 
al God is the very essence of Atheism ; and the 
idea that everything that is, is God, is pure 
Pantheism, which is only another expression 
for Atheism, since- Pantheism denies the exis- 

*Science and Health, page 378. flbid, page 393. 



22 " CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" 

tence of any G-od except the combined laws and 
forces of the universe. Christian Science, there- 
fore, is a system of Atheism, and as such is es- 
sentially anti-Christian. 

2. Again, we note the teachings of this system 
concerning Jesus Christ, and are led to the 
same conclusion as to its anti- Christian charac- 
ter. 

Christian Science affirms that "Jesus was the 
offspring of Mary's self-conscious communion 
with God. Hence, he could give a more spiritu- 
al idea of life than other men, and could dem- 
onstrate the Science of Divine Principle."* 
* ' Jesus is the man, and Christ the Divine prin- 
ciple of the man."f "Christ — Divine Princi- 
ple ; soul, outside the body ; not the person of 
the man Christ Jesus, but his ' eternal Spirit. 9 " J 
This "Divine Principle," or "eternal Spirit," 
however, is common to all men, according to 
the teachings of this so-called Science. Jesus 
Christ, therefore, was simply and solely a per- 
fect man, yet no more perfect than is any and 
every man, in his essential being. Jesus was a 
Christ, but not the Christ ; and as a Christ, he 
was onlv that which every man is in his true 
nature. This is a most refined and subtle de- 
nial of Christ' s divinity, but none the less bias- 

-Science and Health, page 501. flbid, page 408. 

Jlbid, page 530. 



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phemous in its character, and injurious in its 
tendency, because of its assumed purpose to 
recognize and honor the heavenly Master. 

3. The utterances of this system concerning 
the Holy Spirit, are no more in keeping with 
the teachings of Scripture than its theories con- 
cerning the points already noticed. 

The Holy Ghost is defined as " Divine Sci- 
ence ; the developments of eternal life, truth 
and love."* Baptism with the Holy Ghost, is 
described as being " baptized with Divine Sci- 
ence."! 

The Bible represents the Holy Ghost as a 

" Comforter," as a personal being, whose of- 
fices are to " teach," " guide," " reprove," 
"intercede," " search and reveal the deep 
things of God, " " testify of Christ, " " quicken 
the dead," and divide his gifts severally to 
every man according as he will. 

The masculine personal pronoun He is em- 
ployed to designate him, and he is represented 
as being ' ' grieved, " " vexed, ' ' and, as the sub- 
ject of unpardonable blasphemy. Christian 
Science flatly contradicts these Scriptural rep- 
resentations concerning the nature of the Holy 
Spirit. 

4. If we look at the teachings of this system 
concerning the nature of man, we shall also 



^Science and Health, page 538. flbid, page 513. 



24 "christian science" 

find it contradicting the plainest statements of 
the word of God. 

According to the theory of Christian Science, 
"Man was and is the idea of God, — the concep- 
tion of the Eternal Mind, co-existent and co- 
eternal with it."* The Bible savs, God created 
man in his own image,'* etc. — Gen. 1. 26. 

Christian Science says, "Man and God are 
inseparable in Divine Science/ ? + "The belief 
that nam has a life or mind separate from 
God. is the error that dies. This error Jesns 
met with Divine Science, proving its nothing- 
ness, "i 

Says Holy Scripture: i% From everlasting to 
everlasting thou art God. Thou turnest man 
to destruction, and savest. Return, ve children 
of men." 

Christian Science declares : "The term souls, 
or spirits, is as improper as the term Gods. 
Soul or Spirit signifies Deity, and nothing 
else"i 

The God of Scripture affirms: "All souls 

are mine The soul that sinneth it 

shall die."— Ezek. IS. 19, 20. The New Tes- 
tament speaks of "the Father of spirits," and 
of "the spirits of just men made perfect." — 
Heb. 12. 19 and 23. In their teachings concern- 

*Science and Health, page 378. -f-Ibid, page 411. 

rflbid, pages 281 and 282. §Ibid, page 404. 



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ing man, therefore, Christian Science and the 
Scriptures contradict each other. 

5. We find also a similar conflict between 
Christian Science and the Bible concerning the 
fall of man. Evans says, ' ' The fall of man 
was not the result of any single act of disobe- 
dience to the divine law, as the eating of some 
lorbidden fruit, ' ' etc. * The only sin, however, 
to which the Bible ascribes man' s fall is that of 
partaking the forbidden fruit. (See Genesis 3. 
-5.) 

6. " Christian Science" boldly denies the ex- 
istence and possibility of sin. " Spiritual 
man is never wrong." u Sin is a belief only." 
" Strictly speaking, there is no sin." "Man 
■cannot depart from holiness." These are char- 
acteristic expressions of Christian Science, se- 
lected from its principal text-book. 

On the other hand the Scriptures declare that 
"By one man sin entered into the world, and 
death by sin ; and so death passed upon all men, 
ior that all have sinned." — Rom. 5. 22. 

7. This system further contradicts the Bible 
in its teachings concerning the atonement and 
the pardon of sin. Its chief oracle says: 
4 ' Atonement is the exemplification of our one- 
ness with Grod."f The Bible says, "We were 



^Esoteric Christianity, page 66. 
fScience and Health, page 494. 



26 "christian science" 

reconciled [another word for atonement] unto 
God by the death of his Son" — Rom. 4. 10. 
Christian Science says, ' ' Atonement is not blood 
flowing from the veins of Jesus, .... not so 
much the death on the cross, but the cross- 
bearing, deathless life which was left by Jesus- 
as an example to mankind, and ransoms from 
sin all who follow it."* Scripture says, "It is. 
the blood that maketh an atonement for the 
soul." — Lev. 18. 11. "We have redemption. 
through his blood, even the forgiveness of 
sins."' — Col. 1. 14. Christian Science asserts 
that "One sacrifice, however great, is insuffi- 
cient to pay the debt of sin."f Says Holy 
Scripture, "This man, when he had offered one 
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right 

hand of the throne of God For by one 

offering he hath perfected forever them that 
are sanctified."— Heb. 10. 12, 14. 

Christian Science also denies the possibility 
of pardon, by saying : "To suppose that God 
forgives or punishes sin according as his mercy 
is sought or unsought .... is to make prayer 
the safety valve for wrong doing' ' ' ' Principle 
(that is, God) never pardons." \ On the other 
hand, the God of the Bible declares himself to- 
be ' ' The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long- 

*Science and Health, page 528. flbid, page 500. 

Jlbid, page 490. 



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suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniqui- 
ty, transgression and sin, and that will by no 
means clear the guilty." — Ex. 34. 5, 7. 

8. The teachings of this system concerning 
the doctrine of prayer contain a most unblush- 
ing contradiction of the sacred Scriptures. 

Says Mrs. Eddy, "If we pray to God as a 
person, this will prevent us from letting go the 
human doubts and fears that attend all person- 
ality."* 

' ' Prayer to a personal God affects the sick 
like a drug that tias no efficacy of its own" 
etc.f Holy Scripture says: "In everything 
by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, 
let your request be made known unto God." — 
Phil. 4. 6. " When ye pray, say, 'Our Father 
which art in heaven.'" — Luke 11. 2. "The 
prayer of faith shall save the sick." — James 5. 
15. 

9. Christian Science boldly asserts that 
" Tliere is no death "X while the Bible says, 
"It is appointed unto men once to die." — Heb. 
11. 27 ; and that "by one man sin entered into 
the world, and death by sin ; and so death 
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." 
—Rom. 5. 12. § 

^Science and Health, page 492. flbid, p. 489. {Ibid, p.531. 
§In the foregoing quotations the italics are my own. 



28 "chkistia:^ science" 

10. Finally, Christian Science boldly declares 
that • ' There is a future probation, wherein to 
grow out of a natural into a spiritual sense of 
existence."* Whereas, in the Scriptures it is 
written : "He that is unjust, let him be unjust 
still : and he which is filthy, let him be filthy 
still : and he that is righteous, let him be right- 
eous still : and he that is holy, let him be holy 
still."— Rev. 22. 11. 

The advocates of this so-called Science pro- 
less great veneration for the Scriptures ; and 
•doubtless many of them purpose to be loyal to 
the word of God, and sincerely think that their 
system is based upon, and in full accordance 
with, the teachings of that word. The forego- 
ing comparison of its teachings with the plain 
statements of Scripture, however, ought effectu- 
ally to dissipate that illusion. 

How strange it is that any one who is at all 
acquainted with the teachings of the Bible, 
•should be " beguiled from the simplicity that is 
in Christ' ' by a system which, while assuming 
to be Christian in its character, unblushingly 
denies every essential truth of Christianity /" 
And how appropriately does an inspired apostle 
exhort those who have believed on the Son of 
God, and who would not become the victims of 

Science and Health, page 528. 



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such arrogant and base impostures, to " avoid 
foolish, and vain babblings, and oppositions of 
Science, falsely so called."— 1 Tim. 6. 20. 

PERNICIOUS MORAL TENDENCIES OF THE 
SYSTEM. 

This so-called Science should be discounte- 
nanced because of the evil consequences to* 
which it may logically lead in respect to mor- 
al conduct. 

Rev. H. M. Tenny very correctly says : ' ' The 
doctrine of sin which Christian Science promul- 
gates is one of the most harmful errors of the 
system. Mrs. Eddy affirms 'that sin and sick- 
ness are mythology,' 'that, strictly ' speaking, 
there is no sin.' This is the logical outcome of 
her denial of man's personality. Man, as the 
expression of God, can only reflect what is in 
God. God sins not, so man, the constantly-re- 
flected idea of God, cannot sin. The mortal 
mind, which without any responsibility of the 
real mind, has fallen into inverted thinking, 
is alone the author of the idea of sin. Sin then 
may be defined to be the shadow of a shadow 
of a shadow. It is one of the dreams without 
any dreamer. The real man, therefore, knows, 
nothing of it, and is in no wise affected by it. 
Prom this premise it is a natural step to the 



30 "christian science' 3 

conclusion that everv man will ultimately be 
freed from the illusion of sin, and thus the doc- 
trine of the ultimate restoration of all men, is 
frankly accepted by most Christian Scientists. 
Add now the conception that God is utterly 
without cognizance of sin, that he never pun- 
ishes the sinner, and you have a theory which, 
if practically accepted, would destroy the very 
foundations of morality."* 

Concerning the same point Dr. A. J. Gordon 
forcibly says : ' l Some things come to a logical 
end which do not have a very logical beginning. 
If the body is only a phantom and the flesh on- 
ly a shadow, it is logically certain that by and 
by some very practical sinners will take refuge 
under this svstem, and insist that the sins of 
the body and the transgressions of the flesh are 
harmless, since thev are onlv the phantom of a 
phantom, the shadow of a shadow.' ? f 

" It is easv to conceive what would be the 
logical outcome of such principles applied to 
the familv and to the state. A notable scandal 

m 

in Christian Science circles astonished the peo- 
ple last August. One of the priestesses, Mrs. 
Plunkett, spiritually divorced herself from her 
husband and spiritually married TTorthington, 

-Christian Science, its Truths and Errors. 
•(•Christian Science Tested and Scripture. 



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the hero of half a dozen bigamies, and the most 
unmitigated scoundrel that America could pro- 
duce. * But recently, the head of an institution 
in Chicago, who gravely tells us ' immortality 
in man is the result of an anatomical transfor- 
mation,' was arraigned for alienating the affec- 
tions of certain women from their husbands. 

It may be answered that the professors of the 
Christian religion sometimes fall into great 
sins. But the distinction must be clearly made 
that when Christians fall from grace, it is di- 
rectly in opposition to the teachings of Script- 
ure. In the cases we have quoted, the conduct 
is the logical outcome of the principles 
taught, "f 

This system is manifestly a revival of the old 
philosophical errors that prevailed at the time 
when St. John wrote his epistles, and against 
which many of his most pointed and pungent 
utterances were clearly directed. The ancient 
Gnostics, though divided into various and some- 
what differing sects, held, among these several 
.sects, substantially the same theories concerning 
God, Jesus Christ, man, sin, and the atonement, 
that Christian Science now teaches. Claiming 
to be Christians, and professedly taking their 

^Christian Advocate, Sept. 12, 1889. 

f Facts and Fallacies of Christian Science, page 13. 



32 " CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" 

stand on the Bible, their system involved "an 
extraordinary conglomeration of Monotheism, 
Pantheism, Spiritualism and Materialism," dif- 
ficult to be accounted for, and to which the 
teachings of Christian Science correspond in 
many particulars. One of those schools, like 
these modern self-styled Scientists, denied the 
existence and possibility of sin, affirming that 
their mind was one with Deity, and that the 
body with its enjoyments, as also all terrestrial 
things, had as little to do with their minds, as- 
with the mind of God. History says this led 
them to practice the grossest sensuality, in 
token, as they said, of their utter contempt for 
material things.* 

I would by no means be understood as charg- 
ing Christian Scientists generally with immoral 
practices ; but I do maintain that they hold 
doctrines substantially the same as those which r 
in the early history of the church, led to gross- 
est immorality under a pretense of superior 
spirituality ; and which may logically lead to 
like consequences wherever they are embraced. 

Against those ancient errors the large portion 
of St. John' s first epistle was evidently directed. 
This is particularly true of the first chapter, all 
of which might be quoted appropriately in this 

*See Chambers' Encyc, Art. Gnostics. 



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connection, would space permit. This epistle 
not only rebukes those ancient errors, but 
seems to anticipate most fully that modern 
philosophy which we are now considering ; and 
a better refutation of its incoherent, anti-script- 
ural, and unphilosophical teachings can not be 
found. It seems as though the apostle must 
have had the Christian Scientists particularly 
in mind when he said: " If we say that we 
have 7to sin, we deceive ourselves, and the 
truth is not in us. If we co?tfess our sins, he 
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, 
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness \ 
If we say that we have not sinned, we make 
him a liar, and his word is not in us." — 1 
Johnl. 8-10. 

TESTED BY THE CANONS OF SCIENCE. 

This system, which has arrogated to itself 
such a high-sounding title, is not only anti- 
Christian in its theology and pernicious in its; 
practical moral tendencies, but the claim it sets 
up in respect to being a science is wholly un- 
founded and false. Science is classified knowl- 
edge — ' ' knowledge generalized, systematized^ 
and verified." It is u the record of observed 
phenomena." Christian Science, so-called, is 
wanting in all these characteristics. " Tested 



34 "CHKISTIAIN' SCIENCE" 

by the canons of science, it is not science, nor 
even the semblance of it. It can not marshal 
one great name in science as its apostle." 

Instead of an orderly presentation of facts, 
which, have been established by rigid analysis 
and .thorough experiment, it has nothing to 
offer but the random guesses and senseless va- 
garies of ancient and modern dreamers. These 
bear about as much relation to truth as Gulli- 
Ter' s Travels do to the accepted facts of history, 
No sound reasoning, based upon established 
principles, can justify the premises on which 
its theories are built. The author of this boast- 
ful system has not hitched her wagon to a star, 
but rather to a wind, which is swiftly driving 
on to destruction with all who are on board. 
"To some, Christian Science is a celestial phe- 
nomenon, a new luminary in the heavens ; but 
on investigation it is an ignis fattens, the ex- 
halation of terrestrial marshes. It is not a new 
luminary in the heavens, but merely a lantern 
tied to the tail of a kite." 

ITS CLAIMS AS A SYSTEM OF THEKAPEUTICS. 

So much for the pretended claims of this sys- 
tem as a science. We now pass to consider it 
briefly as a system of therapeutics, or as a 
healing art. It is by its wonderful claims in 



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this respect that it endeavors to commend itself 
to the public, and wins its adherents. It claims 
to be possessed of as wondrous power to cure 
disease as Jesus Christ ever exhibited. In fact, 
it declares Jesus Christ to have cured the sick, 
not by any miraculous power, but by an appli- 
cation of the rules of his sublime (?) science. 
Mrs. Eddy assumes equality with him, and, in 
a small way, sets herself forth as a second 
Savior of the world. She asserts that Jesus 
healed by Christian Science ;* that she is his 
first successor since apostolic times ;f that God 
•called her ^ that the revelation of these won- 
derful principles had to be made through a 
woman ;§ through one who was pure and spirit- 
ually near to Grod ;|| and that any abuse of her 
mission is* an impossibility."** 

The method of treating disease is very simple, 
indeed. Here it is: " Mentally contradict 
every complaint from the body, and hold your 
ground disputatiously until the body yields to 
your demand. ' ' ft Dispute the testimony of the 
-senses by Divine Science, ft The moment a 
patient can be made to think he is well, he is 

^Science and Health, pages 182 and 352. 

fBist. Sketch, page 8. {Ibid. §Ibid, page 8. 

[Ibid. **Ibid. 

ffScience and Health, page 308. ^Ibid. 



36 "CHKISTIAN SCIENCE" 

well ! The plain English of all this is, when 
your tooth aches, say it does not ache, and it 
will not ache. If your back is deformed, say 
it is not deformed, and it will be straight. If 
yon have broken your arm, say the arm is not 
broken, and it will be whole again. In other 
words, just lie about all your physical ail- 
ments, and stiok to the lie until you are well, 
is the one remedy that Christian Science pre- 
scribes for the cure of all diseases. 

But what about the marvelous cures Chris- 
tian Scientists claim to have effected ? some one 
may be led to inquire. Is there any healing 
force in such a system of imposture as you af- 
firm Christian Science to be? Can a lie cure 
the sick ? Undoubtedly it can. A sugar pellet 
has relieved many a sufferer who supposed it 
to be a drug of great medicinal virtue. 

That many cures have been effected by Chris- 
tian Science, which seem quite marvelous, is 
not denied. The larger proportion of them, 
however, were cases in which any strong men- 
tal arousement of the patient, with a continued 
excitement of his imagination in a favorable 
direction, and with something to call forth the 
energies of his will on the side of recovery, 
would have effected a similar cure. Still, 
should we admit that all these cures are as 



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marvelous as they appear, they do not demon- 
strate the truthfulness of the Christian Science 
doctrines, any more than the healing of the 
sick by clairvoyant practice proves modern 
spiritualism to be of divine origin. 

That there is a most intimate relation between 
the mind and body, and that marvelous effects 
can be produced upon disease by various kinds 
of mental excitement, are facts that have long 
been recognized in medical science. No particu- 
lar school or class of practitioners "has a mo- 
nopoly of effective methods by which this occult 
power can be utilized." This mental energy is 
the common source of healing power to which 
3,11 modern classes of errorists, enthusiasts, and 
quacks appeal for effects, when endeavoring to 
establish the claims of their respective systems 
to a supernatural or divine origin and charac- 
ter. Amid numerous failures they all meet 
with some successes. Yet they cannot all be 
right ; nor can Christian Science, or any other 
of these modern systems, show a degree of suc- 
cess so much more marked than that of the 
others as to prove its superiority as a healing 
agency over all other systems. 

In cases of a critical nature, but which are 
susceptible of medical aid, the failures of Chris- 
tian Scientist healers so far outnumber their 



38 "christian science" 

cures as to condemn the system, and be a warn- 

ing to the public against being duped by a so- 
called science, which is not established upon 
any scientific foundation. This has been shown 
at considerable length by Rev. H. M. Tenney, 
in his work on "Christian Science — Its Truth 

and Errors." Mr. Tenner made extensive and 

■i 

thorough investigations, from the results of 
which he establishes his position, that, as a 
curative agency Christian Science is a failure. 
A further demonstration of the unscientific and 
unreliable character of this system, in its appli- 
cation to the treatment of the sick, may also be 
found in "The Popular Science Monthly, " for 
April, 1889. in an article on ;> Science and Chris- 
tian Science," by Frederick A. Fernald. Nu- 
merous instances are therein given which show 
this so-called science to be a failure so far as it 
assumes to be a superior curative agency. 

Christian Science appeals to the extraordinary 
cures it has effected as a demonstration of its 
truths and doctrines which cannot be over- 
thrown. Mrs. Eddy claims to have ; * submitted 
her system to the broadest practical tests;" 
and also that. % * wherever scientifically employ- 
ed it has proved itself to be the most effective 
curative agency in medical practice." * Xever- 

-Science and Health, page 13. 



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theless, when Prof. L. Q-. Townsend, D. D., of 
Boston University, through the columns of 
Ziort s Herald in 1884, offered her one thousand 
dollars if she and her entire college of physi- 
cians would reduce a real case of hip or ankle 
dislocation without manipulation, and without 
touching it ; and when he further offered her 
two thousand dollars if she and her entire col- 
lege would impart sight to one of the inmates 
of the South Boston Asylum for the Blind ; she 
declined to make the test, on the ground that 
she was then engaged in another department 
of Christian work, where "there shall no sign 
be given them? ' In declining, she also thanked 
the Professor, and assured him that, were she 
to accept the challenge, he would lose his 
money, inasmuch as she had " performed more 
difficult tasks than these fifteen years ago." 

DANGERS OF EXPERIMENTING WITH THE 
SYSTEM. 

Christian Scientist healers should not be em- 
ployed for the treatment of the sick, because of 
the positive danger to which their method of 
practice inevitably exposes their patients in 
critical cases. 

Of course, if one is not much sick he may 



40 "CHKISTIAlSr science" 

not be taking any serious risk in experiment- 
ing with these self-styled doctors ; and the 
most serions consequences of such experiments 
may be those which will affect his pocket-book. 
]STo critical case, however, can be entrusted to 
these irresponsible practitioners without great- 
ly increasing the peril of the patient. 

Developments during the last year in the city 
where I now live corroborate this position. 
The lives of two women have been sacrificed for 
the want of proper and timely medical treat- 
ment. The Christian Scientists gave them over 
to the care of physicians when it was too late 
for medical skill to be availing. 

One of them had an attack of pleuro-pneu- 
monia. She was at first in the hands of a regu- 
lar practitioner. A friend persuaded her to 
dismiss the doctor and call in a Christion Sci- 
entist practitioner who lived near her. She did 
so. After twelve days, in which time she rap- 
idly grew worse, the patient was again placed 
in charge of an accredited physician. She was 
removed to a hospital, where, within two hours, 
two surgical operations were performed. Ab- 
scesses had formed in the right shoulder joint 
and in the back, from which two pints of mat- 
ter were taken. One rib was removed, and, 
lad she lived, it would have been necessary to 



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remove several more, in order that the pleural 
cavity might heal. 

The other patient referred to died of puer- 
pural convulsions. Medical aid was summoned 
when Christian Science failed, but not until the 
patient was so nearly dead that medical skill 
was of no avail. 

Another sad instance is that of an estimable 
lady being made violently insane through her 
connection with Christian Science. (For want 
of space the details cannot be given.) 

Great excitement was recently created in 
Jamestown, N. Y., over the death of a Mrs. 
Barrows, who was under process of treatment 
by the Christian Scientist people for the cure of 
of a cancer. A Coroner' s inquest was held over 
the body of the deceased, and the jury rendered 
the following verdict : 

"We find that Mrs. Barrows came to her 
death as the result of cancer of the breast on 
the 8th day of May, 1890. We also believe 
that contributory to this death was the culpable 
negligence of Mrs. M. J. Smith and Mrs. C. Gr. 
Lovejoy, who were advised of the nature of the 
fatal malady from which deceased was suffer- 
ing, and failed to report or to advise treat- 
ment by any methods known to medical science. 
We further believe that W. A. Barrows was 



42 " CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" 

also negligent in not securing medical treatment 
for his wife when he had reason for believing 
she was in need of such treatment."* 

Certainly, the authorities ought to take such 
cases in hand, and prosecute them vigorously, 
if there is any law to meet the case ; and if not, 
our legislators should givejus a law at an early 
date that will be an effectual barrier against 
such irresponsible practitioners imposing upon 
the ignorance and credulity of the people. 

Many will also remember the published ac- 
counts of the case of Dr. Cowdry, a Christian 
Scientist, of Hartford, Ct. , who died last year 
from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, with 
which he was suddenly prostrated while lectur- 
ing on this science. " Christian Science can 
defy death," said the lecturer, when he was 
suddenly smitten down, never to recover. Thus 
Christian Science, through one of its noted 
champions and votaries, boastfully challenged 
Death for combat; Death accepted the chal- 
lenge and gained the victory. 

RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION. 

We have now glanced at the origin and 
spread of this system ; at a summary of its 

*This instance, which occurred sinoe the delivery of this lec- 
ture, is inserted here because of its pertinence to the subject. 



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principles as set fort by its standard authors ; 
at its theology, its philosophy, and its therapeu- 
tics, and at its practical operations as a healing 
agency. And now, after a somewhat extended 
and careful examination of these several points, 
what must be the verdict as to its general char- 
acter? Is it Christianity? Is it Science? 
" Tested by common sense, tested by history, 
tested by philosophy, tested by Scripture, what 
is it? It is not Christian. It is pagan. It is a 
revival of Pantheism. It is the introduction of 
Buddhism into Christian civilization. It un- 
dermines the very structure of the Christian 
faith. It dethrones God. It perverts Script- 
ure, it annihilates sin, it blots out the sun in 
the spiritual firmament, the atoning work of 
our Lord Jesus Christ. It deludes the soul 
with a muddy twaddle about good, peace, har- 
mony, life and health, wresting a portion of 
Scripture here and there to give Christion color 
and sanction."* 

When a system so essentially anti-Christian 
in its character as Christian Science has been 
shown to be, seeks to hide its true nature and 
to win a reputation by operating under the guise 
of Christianity ; and when such a system seeks 
to establish its claim to have reached the stand- 

*Facts and Fallacies of Christian Science, page 14. 



44 " CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" 

ard of infallible and ultimate truth, by the 
working of cures which it claims are as mirac- 
ulous as the cures wrought by Christ himself ; 
it calls to mind St. Paul's description of anti- 
christ as he is to be manifested in the last days ; 
" Whose coming is after the working of Satan 
with all power and signs and lying wonders, 
and with all deceiveableness of unrighteousness 
in them that perish ; because they receive not 
the love of the truth, that they might be 
saved."— 2 Thess. 2. 9, 10. 

After what examination I have given it, I can 
but regard this whole system as the greatest 
humbug of the age ; an insult and disgrace to 
the intelligence of the nineteenth century ; an 
umitigated fraud, begotten of "the father of 
lies," and designed to deceive, if it were possi- 
ble, "the very elect." " Beware," then, my 
brethren, u lest ye also, being led away with 
the error of the wicked, fall from your own 
steadfastness." Beware of the insidious ap- 
proaches of this subtle system of error. Listen 
not to its fair but false professions and promises. 
Take heed that you be not deceived and over- 
thrown by its pernicious but professedly Chris- 
tian teachings. "I fear, lest by any means, as 
the serpent beguiled Eve by his subtlety, so 
your minds should be corrupted from the sim- 



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plicity that is in Christ." Hence, I cannot 
better conclude this lecture, than with the fol- 
lowing admonition of St. John to those who 
were in danger of being led away from the sim- 
plicity of Christian faith by the subtle errors 
of the Gnostics and Scientists of his time : 

" Beloved, believe not every spieit, but 
tey the spirits whether they are of god : 
because many false prophets are gone out 
into the world. hereby know ye the 
Spirit of God : every spirit that confess- 
eth that jesus christ is come in the flesh 
is of God : and every spirit that confess- 

ETH NOT THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE 
FLESH IS NOT OF GOD : AND THIS IS THAT SPIRIT 
OF ANTI-CHRIST, WHEREOF YE HAVE HEARD 
THAT IT SHOULD COME; AND EVEN NOW AL- 
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THIRD EDITION 



SYRACUSE, N. Y. 

A. W. HALL, Publisher. 

1892. 



Copyright, 1898, by A. W. Hall. 




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